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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1917-6-14, Page 7ti;s BRILLIANT BRITISH OFFENSIVE MIGHTY BLOW IN BELGIUM n., Britons, Led by Gen. Sir Herbert Plu ter, Occupy Gcl'>ina 1 Posi- tions on the Messines•. 4tschaete Ridge. A dospetch from London says; - In one of the most elaborately plan- ned and daringly executed manoeuvres of the war, Sir -Douglas Haig's forces, have dealt a mighty blow against the German line in Belgium, and been re- warded with notable gains in terrain and the capture of more than 5,000 prisoners and numerous guns of various calibre. In addition they in flitted heavy casualties on the Ger- mans. Over a front of more than nine miles extep�t1ding from the region of Ypres Sotithwarcl' and 'hearty to Armentieres, the British startedtheir drive in 'the early hours of Thursday morning and at nightfall had everywhene advanced "their line, capturing villages and nu- merous points of vantage, among the latter the Messines-1yytschaete ridge, whicai commands the surrounding plains for miles and which for two and a half years has been a trouble- some salient. The villages of Messines and Wyts- chaete fell intothe hands of the Brit ddrieg the attack, and the British evenpressed on eastward from Wyts- chaete and occupied the village of Oostaverne and, trenches eaet of the village on a front of mare than five Miles. Probably never in history was an attack launched with greater pre- paration. For days the Wytschaete salient had been the objective of the l3ritish guns, wbieh had hurled tons of steel upon it, When the time for the attack came the British loosed mines containing 600 tons of high ex- plosives in front of the German po- sitions, .the detonations being heard 130 miles away in England. With consternation reigning among the Germans and under a curtain de fire, English, Irish, New Zealand and Australian infantrymen, with `'tanks to aid them, started across the open, The Germans offered only slight re sistance, and everywhere were beaten off, even late in the afternoon, when i they had ,somewhat: regained their composure and attempted a counter -1 attack near the southern end 'of the line, which was broken up by the Brit- ish artillery fire. ...'GERMANY 9 .NCII..DENANDH Will Not Accede to Restoration of Alsace-Lorraine. A despatch from Berlin says: The French Chamber's decision that the war must continue until Prussian,mili- tarism is destroyed and Alsace-Lor- raine regained caused' the greatest Indignation all over Germany, and not the least among the Socialists. For f3ome time one could notice a 'decided change in the attitude of the large German classes toward . Fiance, who even to the beginning of the present year had displayed something akin to compassion. German papers pre- serve rather a forced calmness in dis- cussing proceedings cussin the roceedin s in the French Chamber, though all of then without any exception emphasize the stereo- typed phrase, "Alsace-Lorraine was German, is German, and :will remain German forever, no matter what the Chamber may decide." Vorwaerts feels perhaps the hardest, because it says that even French Socialists who recently were ready, to sit down with German Socialists' at Stockholm and discuss with then peace without an- nexation now seem to ha"re identified nue themselves with the war aims of the capitalist classes. CA ARiv:CAS-DSI ON i L il British Subjects in United States Liable for Service. A despatch from Ottawa says: Ex- tensive arrangements have been com- pleted by which British subjects in the United States may join the Can- adian Expeditionary Force. Various centres of recruiting have been opened in American cities, including New York, Boston, Rochester, Buffalo, De- troit, Chicago, etc. British subjects, of whom a complete list is in the pos- session of the 'United States Govern- ment since the registration day in the States, can proceed to any ofthese centres, pass a preliminary medical examination, and, if fit, are sent on to the headquarters ofthe military district in Canada that is nearest,to them. HUN RAIDERS �pR ERE O ' DOWN Attack of German Air-ScYtiadtrom on English Coast Routed.. A despatch from London says: LUXEMBURG STRIKES Eight of eighteen German aeroplanes AGAINST THE HUNS: that .took part'i'n. Tuesday's air raid on Essex and Kent were driven down High Cost;of Living' and Refusalto Increase Wages Are Responsible. A despatch from Geneva says: The Markets, of the World i From Eric's Green Isle DEWS BY MAIL FROM LAN1IYS SHORES. B eadstpitn Toronto, .tuna 12-7V1anitoba wheat -- No oifietal quotations, Alanitoba oats --No official quotattortS, .Afl'erican ,corn -No, 2 yellow. $1.83, nominal track Toronto. Ont,urlo outs --No orftalal quotetionrs. No. 8 white, no official 0uotatlens. Ontario wheat -No.. 2 Winter, per car lot, $2.50 to $2.55; No. 3. do„ $2,48 to $2.53, aeoorfiing to freights outside. .Manitoba flour--F1rst patents, in Jute jute c a ants J •t 0'second >t Jc f3 � 1. btpgs, $12.50; strong batters'; in Jute bags, $12,70, `Toronto, Ontario flour -Winter, according to sample, $11.00 to $11,10, in 'bags, track Toronto, rompt shipment. Peas -No. 2, nominal, according to {freights outside. to -Malting, ,nominal, according t0 fretgitts outs ido. liye-No. 2, 02.00,, nominal, according to freights outside. Millfeed-Ca.[ lots; delivered Montreal freights,bags included Bran, 'per ton, $35; shoats, per torn, $41; middlings, per ton, $45; good feed Ilour. Per bug, 02,50 to $2.90.. flay -Extra No, 2, per ton, $t2.00 to $14,00; nitxed, per Lon, 00 to $11.50, track Toronto, Straw -Car lots, per ton, 09, track To- ronto• Country Produce -Wholesale Butter -Creamery, solids, per. ib.,, 363 to 37c;.Prints; per lb., 37 to 3730; dairy; Per lb., 83 to 34c. Eggs -Per doz , 36 to 37e 33 holesalers are selling to the retail trade at the following prices Butter-Ft•esh do- 'Wholesalers choice, 35 to Sac; creamery prints, 42 to 44e; solids, 41 to 450. Eggs -New -laid, in cartons, 44 to 45c; out of cartons, 41 to 42e. Dressed poultry -Spring chickens, 00c; fowl, 24 to 25c; squabs, per doz„ $4,40 to $4,50; turkeys, 25 to 30c. Live poultry -Spring chickens, lb., 40 to 46c; hens, lb., 22 to 200, Cheese -New, large, 243 to 25c; twins, 24i to 263e; triplets, 25" to 25+c; cid, large, 30c; twins, 3Q?cc, Roney -Comb -Extra fine and, heavy weight, per,cloz, $2,76; select, $2,50: to $2.76; N 02 :25. to, 2 Maple syrup -Imperial gallon $1.75. Potatoes -On track, Ontario, per bag, $4.25;' New Brunswick Delawares, per bag, $4.40; .lbertas, per bag, $4.00; 1'. L.1, reds, bag, $4.00. Beans -Imported, hand-picked, 58.50 to $9.00 per bush; Limas, per lb., 19 to 20e. Provisions -Wholesale Smoked meets=Slams, medium, SO to Slc; do,, heavy, 26 to 27c;fcooked, 41 to 420; rolls, 27 to 28o;: breakfast bacon, 33 to 36c; backs, plain, 36 to 37c; bone- less, 39 to 40c. Lard --Pure lard, tierces, 27 to 2730; tubs, 27$ to 273c; pails 273 to 28c;' compound, tierces, 219 to 223; tubs, 211 to 223c; pails, 22 to 223c. • Cured meats--1-ong clear bacon, 25:to 253c per lb; clear bellies, 24 to 250. Montreal Markets Montreal, -Susie 12 -Oats, Canadian Western, No. 2, 793c; do., No. 3, 773c; extra No. 1 `feed, ?73c. Barley -malting, $1.18 to $1.20. Flour, Man. Spring wheat patents, firsts, $13.10; seconds,:512.60; strong bakers', '513.43; Winter patents, choice, $13.75; straight rollers, $13.00 to 513,30; . do., •bags, ` $5.25 to 06.40. Gaoled oats, barrels, 53.90; cid, bags, 90. lbs., $4,35. Bran, $36 to $38. Shorts, $44•. Middlings, 046 to $50. .Mouiflie, $50 to $55, Hay, No. 2, per ton, ear lots. $13 to $13.50. Cheese,' finest westerns, 20 to 2030; do, finest easterns,'19 to 1930. Butter, Choicest creamery, 383 to 39c; do., seconds, 373 to 38e. Eggs, fresh,` 42 to' 43c. Potatoes, per bag, 'car lots, $11:00 to $4:25. Winnipeg Grain Winnipeg, June 12 -Cash prices t --- No. 1 Northern, $2.49; No. 2. do 53.46; No. 3, da 52.11; No. 4,$2.29; No. 5, $2.04; No.6, 21.71; 'feed $1.32. Oats - No. 2 C.W., 693c No. 3, do., 683c; ex- tra No. 1 leed, .6755; No. 1 feed, 64'c; No. 2, do 638e. narleY-No. 3, 01.26; No, 4, $1.2,0; rejected, $7.,05; 'feed, 01.05. Flax -No 1 N.-W.C., $3.023; No., 1 C.W. $2.97; .No. 3, do,,. -$2,79, 'Basis csontraet- Wheat-June, $2.46; ;July, $2_41. United. States Markets Minneapolis,. June 12-- Wheat -3'u13 , 0 $2.40; September, $1.86; cash -No, 1 by British airmen. Four of the'se were hard, '52.95; 1Vo, 1 Northern, $2,55 to to a. certaintycompletely destroyed, $2.95; No, 2, do-, 02,15 to $2.85. Corn -- while p Y Y, No. 3 yellow, 0 •x.023 `to 51 .6333, Oats - while two other"s are, believed to have ivo. 3 white, 6211 to 633, Flour tY&1- been put totally out of commission: chDuluth, Bran -$24 1.22 -fl uto e 25. 1 hard, Of the eighteen machines that 52.64; No: a Northern, $2.78 to $2.83,. Gazette de' Lausanne says it learns started in the raid two were brought `$ nominal, oun No, �Linseed-$3.23;2nJuly, ,• July, down near the British coast after hay-' 03.25,` September, $3.10. that a general strike has begun owing to the high cost of living and the re- fusal of proprietors of factories, mostly Germans, to increase wages as ;t result of the insecurity of their fac- ing''dropped their bombs, as reported ' Live stock Markets the official British statement: The: Toronto, June 12 -Choice heavy steers,remaining a` teen were engaged by $11.75 to $12; good heavy 'steers, $,11.40 ten naval airlen from Dunkirk, who .10 .017_60; butchers' cattie, .choice, $11.40 tones from attacks ,by -allied air craft. in a. great battle over the sea destroy-y;yeeciit 30' do good 510 1'do° to triett • do.�J,_'_ Five thousand workmen says the ed two more of the Germans and to $9.25; butchers' bulls,• choice, $10.60 newspaper,..began a strike atEs h drove down another f t f' to $11; this Rood bulls $9 75 to $10• regardless of severe warnings, by the which, it is reasonable to believe, were bulls. $6,40 ,to, $6.60; butchers' cows. C , 10 r our, wa 0 do,; medium bulls, $8,60 Co $0; rlo:, rough , German , commander. The strike completely put out of action choice; 470,36 to $7.1; do,good; $9.25 to ;10; do,, medium, 58 to $8.75; stockers, spread to other towns, and German , 0:.----- . 37,50 to $9; feeders, - � 9..50 to $10.25; cavalry at once occupied ",five of the SIFTON WINS IN ALBERTA. canners and cutters, $5.50 to $6.50; milk _ ars, bood'to:cholce, $9D o x126;, do., coma' principal industrial communities, and mad„ each, $40 to $60; siiringers, es.Liberal Government Returned by 585 ,to $110; light ewes, $12 to $i$; NORWAY PARALYZED" sheep, heavy, $8 to $9; calves good' to About same majority as at choteo, $ie to $74; spring lambs, each BY FOOD STRIIKES.16o to 18c; iainbs, choice, $15 to $18; Last Election. do.; medium, $11 to $1,2,50; hog's, fed and watered, $16; do„ weighed off cars, Many Important Plants Throughout A despatch from Edmonton Alta 416,25; klo„ f.c.b., $15,25. the Country Are Idle, says: The Liberal Government under $11,50 to $12; goocl,.$11 to $1.1.25; lower the leadership of Hon. A. L. Sifton g'r'ades, $8.50 to $1.0.50; butchers' cows, London says: A a5 been returned o power in Alberta butchers' bulls, 49.2.5 to $11. espatch to the Central News from as t1, result of the voting in Thursday's Christiania says that great demon- �trations against.the unsatisfactoryelection. Returns are slow in coming • in but the figures tabulated up' to 9 "SETTER THAN ` USUAL" food situation were held throughout ,; Norway lately, The Government: o'clock indicated that the'Liberals j Is' t:he•slogaii of the` Toronto rat .Stock With a view topreventing' . would have about the same proportion Show,' who; announce their ,Eighth An - with rioting, pro -of seats as formerly-38»Put of atotal nual Exxibition in this issue, to be held hibited the sale of, alcoholic bever- t ges for three days, and as a result of this order the restaurants were closed. The despatch adds that all stores in Christiania shut their doors, that the gas works and electrical' plants are idle. and that nearly all workmen etre striking. candidate. Montreal, June 1.2" --•Choice steers A despatch from h t d t to.50c. per cwt. lowed, at $8' to $10.26' Happenings In the Emerald Interest to Irish- men- The rish-men.The price of hay has dropped in the. Athlone market from 335 to £3 per ton. Fire raging in the hillssouth of Cionmel has destroyed large quanti- ties of heather. Fire has destroyed 13allintemple House, Co. Carlow, the residence of Sir Richard Butler. A decision has been reached lay the Enniscorthy. Guardians not to put, the Vaccination Act in fprce until after the war. The Carrick-on-Suir Guardians are paying one shilling and sixpence a gal- lon for the milk supplied to the Work- house. Fire in the works of William For- tune, building contractor of Ennis- corthy, did damage to the extent of 82,500. A series of concerts in aid of the Athlone War Hospital Supply Depot, realized the sum of 3330. The Co, 'Wexford United Agricul- tural Society decided to hold a Orae day` show this year on ,Tuly 26th. Dr. C. O'Reilly of Trim, has report- ed one case of cerebro -spinal menin- gitis to the Local Government Board. Tobacconists of Belfast and district have decided to adopt a scale of prices similar to that of Dublin and district. A special grant of A00 has been passed by the Tyrone County Coun- cil to meet a deficit in the Tyrone County Hospital. A new ward has been. opened in Newry Hospital; by Sir john Ross of Bladensburg, in honor of the late Earl of Kilmorey. Isle a1 SONG ON THE WA+T.t PATH. Shortens the Weary Mileage for Foot- sore Infantrymen. . . The War Department of the United States is getting out a book of songs for their troops to sing in the trenche3 and on the march in France. General Bell is quoted as authority for the statement that singing shortens the weary mileage for the footsore, bur- dened infantryman. Every military camp has found itself sooner or later a nest of singing birds. So prone are the Italian soldiery in the Alps to "bel canto" that often they have to be warned in the face of the enemy that song, as well as the live thunder of the poet's description, leaps "from peak to peak the rattling crags among," and wakes betraying echoes. General Bridges, of the British commission to the United States, tells how he once had hard work to get some fatigued British stragglers out of St. Quentin when an overwhelming -ff Ger- 0 rce_o inans was approaching. Finally he had the inspiration (he was then -a ma- jor) to procure a toy drum and a whistle, and to this music he and a trumpeter brought the men out of town singing the "British Grenadiers." The other day, addressing the training camp at Plattsburg, General Bell said. he wanted every company to have its own song. "'A Hot Time in the Old Town To -night' has a swing to it that will put ginger and cold couragein the hearts of men. Go to it. Sing and fight!" Not without reason is part of the Young Men's Christian Association budget devoted to 200 pianos and piano -players, 200, phonographs and 10,000 records. Canadians and Terri- torials marcttiing through London on their -way to the front are accustomed to lift their voices in music -hall ' dit- ties -not, as a rule, those..of the latest vintage, but usuallythe songs that have been gaining favor through sev- eral seasons. , That is a striking fact about the songs the sailors sing. They are tenacious of the old and approved for the last nine generations they have tunes. A modern ballad of a rhythm had a separate existence on the Tigris Prince Lvoif.. A new photo of the Premier of Rus- sia, who is having troubles all his own trying to hold all elements of the Russians together. CANADA'S GRAIN CROP Qo;ning Harvest Will Probably Vicki 275,000,000 Bushels When Vice -President George Buryof the. C.P.R. made an inspection of the Western lines in .Tune, 1915, he asked all the crop experts for estimates of the wheat yield of that year. Tho high- est he could get was 230,000,000 bush-, els. With eye pacticed at judging the - r i g ow ng`\yheat over great spaces, he was secretly amazed at the unusual fecundity the soil, at the high: and thick growth, the uniform excellence of the plant and its luxuriant appear- ance. He said Canada would raise taken anactive part in British poli - 2.40,000,000' 'bushels: of wheat and felt tical affairs, and ;recently has been that it would raise 300,000,'000. engaged in vigorous support of Pre - In June, 1916, a private estimate mier Lloyd George's Home Rule for placed the Canadian crop at 220,000,- Ireland. 000 'bushels. Notwitllstauding a con tinuaus ava'anolie` of unfavorable re- ports, e- � porta , this was adhered to in the face LLOYDGEORGE even cf Gavernmeiit`figures, The 1915 crop yielded 150,000,000• bushels more HEARS than the public estimate of Mr. Bury,'BATTLE mid the 1916 crop .,has produced ap- proximately 220,000,000 bushels. Canada's Spring wheat area in- creased from 4,977,00'0 acres in 1906 to 13,643,000 acres in 1916; oats area from 2,309,000 acres to 6,976,00'0 acres. Manitoba's wheat area is, less nowTTLE than t1906. explosions which opened Saskatchewan's acreage the' British ,attack 0n Wytschaete bend age is four :were times as large as it was 10 years ago, `u ere heard by David Lloyd George, Alberta' ha also ' g the British Premier, who was staying s felt population,tire and for the night at his residence,:al eastern and southern "' g Walton now has 2,629,000 acres on wioleli Heath. The plans for the attack had wheat has been raised where she only been long maturing, and when the pre had 140,0'00 acres in 1906. nparations were perfected 'the Premier There have boon official and numer- l'was acquainted with the exact hour ous private estimates oferce_ it was intended to open it. e g n for this years acres sow p [ ntage crop, It of I Accordingly, on retiring last night, : is doubtful if there are reliable Mr. LloydGeorge gave orders to be figures nteriar, The i ; or even• of acresg e. - called at 3 a.m. Thursday' morning, on ' hinterland, farmer helped by moisture, i the chance of being ng able, to hear the played c wh stof explosions. The Premier and other 1915 andlravo came to itthfilee resecueimates of the inembers of his household clearly guess made for 1916. The settler 'heard the tremendous detonations, as many miles distant from the railroad, also did persons' at the Premier's of - even from the public highway, is still ficial residence in London, who sup- to willposed they were the sounds of ea k for many years an statistical heavy to be reckoned with n theguns, until later they learned from ment statisticathe despatches life of Canada. He is the pian who has p rhes that they came from year's harvest: It is his contribution last year's wheat to sell durin this the explosion of mines. From g London to the region where g from a thouthe British mines were'ex loded along isolated farms that .P adds 100 or 200 carloads a day • i n the German front the distance ranges the from 130, to 140 miles. • Summer time to inspections of old SHIP OF ARGENTINA IS SUNK BY U-BOAT. Young Women , Wanted Good oPporturuity offered y n ng women desiring permanent work in Toronto to.1eai'n:wartitnes work113 tho; largest established restaurant in Cana - Oa. Good wages paid, ` best working conditions and fair treatment. Write, telephone ' or Gall. Childs Co„ 168 Yopge St,.T0'rontoo, EDD NORTHCLIFFE SUCCEEDS Takes Position of mead of Bri- tish Mission to the United States. A despatch from London says: Lord Northcliffe, at the request .of the War Cabinet, has accepted the position of head of the British war mission in the United States in suc- cession to Arthur J. Balfour; who it to return to his duties at the Foreign Office. Lord Northcliffe's task will be to co-ordinate the various British mis- sions, and act in concert with ',the Mis- sions the Entente allies and of the American and Canadian Govern- meets. Ha has made many visits to the United States and Canada. He was born at Chapelizod, county Dube lin, July 15, 1865. Lord Northcliffe is well known as a writer and newspaper proprietor. He controls, among other journals, The Loi idon -Times and London Daily Mail. He has 'a controlling interest in great Newfoundland paper mills and the imperial Paper Mills • at Gravesend, near London. He has long Sounds of Explosion of British Attack Heard in London. A. despatch from London says: The crop wheat. Experts familiar with the outlook for, the coming crap place the probable yield at 275,000,000 bushels. A despatch from Paris says: The Argentine sailingp Ori NO LOVE FOR THE TURK. ship Grime was - sunk by a submarine in the Mediter- ranean on Wednesday 'accordin g to Tribal Group en Lower Tigris Accept ' g an A P announcement :.made by the Ministry British Administration. of Marine Thursday night. The crew. One of the great tribal groups of was saved by a French ship. the lower Tigris has now come com- pletely under British control, It is known as the' Albu Muhammad. As an independent entity the Albu Mu- hammad are not of ancient date, but sufficiently taking may sweep the regi- between Amarah and Ezra's Tomb, meats like machine-gun fire; but for their headquarters being the little one "Tipperary" there are hundreds town of Qai'at Salih. of modern mushroom growths that The Sheikhs showed no pertiiia- perish. The gong a ;idler carries in; cious devotion to the ` Turks, with his mental kit must have a swinging , whom they had spent most of their simplicity of form and the syhpathetc lives in active conflict and made sub- in,56.the Cabinet at the Union Stock Yards', on: Decem- appeal of the elemental sentiment that mission to British forces as soon as the'House of All 'Ministers are believes to' have been' be' 7th and Stb- next, Our readers will makes tbo whole world kine returned, although the Attorney -Gen- I remember the record prices' paid at the aril, Hon. C. W. Cross, is having !Auction Sale'at last year's. show, the a Grand Champion being bought by the close run in Edson. Only a few polls I T. Eaton Cam.pany at 50'0. per ib„ live German tlloro}ighness should not ably loyal, willing enough to meet have been heard from at Beaver River, weight. Premium lists will be' out in overlook the fact that one of the tiffany unusual demands for labor on road and where Hon. Wilfrid Gariepy is theI a' few days and will contain all .the reasons that France is popular is that writes the British e e -wit - railway, Y ( old aud's'everal new classes. ( it is essentially a eourteous nation I nest with the army, EIGHTH ANNUAL TORONTO FAT STOCK SHOW Wawa Stock Yards TORONTO EC. 7th & 8th, 1917. they had established themselves at `v I e, Amarah. For the last eighteen months they have shown themselves reason- FOR -pmrwe anter... 4x-^,tramr...eusx." tT1..... N142APG¢mecir0creP1,- ..::hx ..-tiY+�.T@'@L[tx'•1BGY S ena.miques t' Poon: ° IVIA 15 Net N, AWFUL. 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